.\" Manpage for av-caster.
.TH AvCaster 7 "16 May 2016" "av-caster v0.15" "AvCaster Man Page"
.SH NAME:
av-caster \- simple native gStreamer GUI for screencast, webcam, and audio streaming
.SH SYNOPSIS:
.nf
\fIav-caster\fR [ --help | --version | --presets ]
\fIav-caster\fR [ --preset N ]
\fIav-caster\fR [ --no-media ] [ --no-preview ] [ --no-audio ] [ --no-chat ]
\fIav-caster\fR [ --screen-only | --camera-only | --text-only | --image-only ]
.SH DESCRIPTION:
.nf
AvCaster is built upon the JUCE framework, utilizing gStreamer as the media backend and libircclient as the chat backend. It is currently capable of recording to file or streaming to an RTMP server with screen capture (X11/XV \- full\-screen), webcam (V4L2 \- full\-screen or overlay), and audio (ALSA/PULSE/JACK \- mono or stereo). It is moderately configurable, with preset configurations for streaming via popular servers such as livecoding.tv, and allows custom user\-defined configurations to be stored as additional presets.
.SH OPTIONS:
.SS INFORMATION:
.IP --help 5
prints this message and exits
.IP --presets 5
list stored presets and exits
.IP --version 5
prints the application version string and exits
.SS CONFIGURATION:
.IP --preset 5
starts av-caster with initial preset number n
.SS FEATURE SWITCHES:
.IP --no-media 5
disables all media and stream output
.IP --no-preview 5
disables realtime preview
.IP --no-audio 5
disables audio capture
.IP --no-chat 5
disables chat
.IP --screen-only 5
disables compositing and renders screen only
.IP --camera-only 5
disables compositing and renders webcam only
.IP --text-only 5
disables compositing and renders text overlay only
.IP --image-only 5
disables compositing and renders static image only
.SH FILES:
.IP ~/.config/av-caster/av-caster.bin 5
persistent application configuration file in JUCE binary format
.SH ENVIRONMENT:
.IP AVCASTER_RTMP_DEST 5
this will be used as the RTMP network destination or stream key when the 'URI:' or 'Stream Key:' GUI configuration fields are empty
.SH BUGS:
WIP \- see https://github.com/bill-auger/av-caster/issues.
.SH AUTHOR:
bill-auger <bill-auger@programmer.net>
